The National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy revealed that a cockpit recording from the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the January 29th Potomac River crash suggests the crew may have missed a crucial instruction just before the collision. The investigation indicates the helicopter was on a check flight with the pilot undergoing training on night vision goggles and instrument flying. Homendy stated that investigators are exploring the possibility of 'bad data' in the cockpit, potentially leading to the pilots misjudging their altitude.
National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the recording from the Black Hawk helicopter cockpit suggests the crew may have missed the key instruction just before the Jan. 29 collision, in whichHomendy said the helicopter was on a check flight that night when the pilot was being tested on the use of night vision goggles and flying by instruments.
Investigators believe the crew was wearing night vision goggles throughout the flight. Homendy said the Black Hawk crew never heard the words “pass behind the” during the transmission from the controller because the helicopter’s microphone key was depressed right then.Investigators revealed some of the data recorded onboard the American Eagle jet and Army helicopter involved in the deadly Potomac River crash. News4's Dominique Moody breaks it down. At one point during the flight before the collision the helicopter pilot being tested called out that the Black Hawk was at 300 feet, but the instructor pilot said the helicopter was at 400 feet, Homendy said.Homendy said it's possible the pilots might have had"bad data" in the cockpit before the collision. "We are looking at the possibility of there may be bad data. We're looking at were they seeing something different in the cockpit that differs from the FDR data, which was radio altimeter," she said.asked Homendy if the helicopter pilots might have thought they were at an altitude different from their actual altitude, to which she responded:"It's possible, but we have a lot of work to do until we get to that." Evidence suggests the American Airlines jet crew was aware of the helicopter right before impact, Homendy said during an interview with Costello after the presser. "Yes, there was an indication, and that is, we see a pitch up of the aircraft. So it was nine degrees up, maximum elevator deflection. So there was an indication that they may have seen something," she said., when a jet slammed into a New York City neighborhood just after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five more on the ground., but there have been a string of incidents in recent weeks, including a fiery explosion on Jan. 31 when aAmerican Airlines Flight 5342 was coming in from Wichita, Kansas, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, as it approached Reagan National to land on a clear Wednesday night. Nearby, a U.S. Army Black Hawk with three soldiers on board was on a training exercise, practicing emergency evacuation routes that would be used to ferry out key government officials in case of an attack or catastrophe. A few minutes before the twin-engine jet was to land, air traffic controllers asked if it could use a shorter runway. The pilots agreed, and flight-tracking sites show the plane adjusted its approach. Shortly before the collision, a controller got an alert that the plane and Black Hawk were converging and asked the helicopter if it had the plane in sight. The military pilot said yes and asked for “visual separation” with the jet — allowing it to fly closer than otherwise may have been allowed if the pilots didn’t see the plane. Controllers approved the request.Since the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board has recovered all the flight data recorders and pulled the wreckage of both aircraft from the Potomac., but officials have been providing regular updates as investigators learn more and they plan to publish a preliminary report in the coming weeks.publicly faulted the helicopter, which had a flight ceiling of 200 feet , for flying too high. He also blamed federal diversity and inclusion efforts, particularly regarding air traffic controllers. When pressed by reporters, the president could not back up those claims. A few days later, Trump placed the Army officials have said the Black Hawk crew was highly experienced and familiar with the crowded skies around Washington. The News4 family pays tribute and remembers the 67 lives lost in the midair collision over the Potomac River in January.Elon Musk ripped a company for storing government records in a mine. Now, DOGE may give Iron Mountain a boost
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